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[–] riddlemeboner 86 points 11 months ago (4 children)
[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 58 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My first thought was “this is why you use Jellyfin”.

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If Jellyfin would play nice with my APU, not clog the system every time it does a metadata update and the plugin for intro outro detection worked half as good as Plex does, I'd contemplate switching.

If I could say goodbye to Plexamp and it's awesome Sonic Analysis stuff that is.

[–] lemmyng@lemmy.ca 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You could try Emby. It's freemium, but the free part doesn't (or didn't, last time I used it) require an online account.

IIRC Emby was forked to Jellyfin

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 28 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I tried Plex and as someone new to it it seems like such garbage. Jellyfin has been utterly flawless for me.

[–] Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip 12 points 11 months ago (2 children)

the centralized login method is easier for people outside of your network to use your content. thats kinda the main draw if you are willing to sacrifice that level of privacy

[–] nexussapphire@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

I'd just create a VPN on my local server and login that way.

[–] naticus@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

That's a big reason I went to Emby instead. Liked it so much I paid for it and gained access to LDAP support for logins so everyone can login to the same account they use for other things I host.

Plex was amazing a few years ago. It continued to get shittier and shittier. But it did create the groundwork of what's possible.

[–] haui_lemmy@lemmy.giftedmc.com 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I‘ve had a plex moment today… with plex.

My wife bought the app so we can listen to our music via mobile app.

I knew i was gonna visit an area with infamously bad cell reception so I wanted to download my music to my bought mobile app on my mobile device and it said „you need plex pass for this“.

I‘ll have to get rid of plex now because this kind of BS is not for me. I completely get the problem with devs being forced to do this unpaid but its no fun. I invest heavily in open source, both money and time. Having this kind of paywall really sucks.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 4 points 11 months ago

Try jellyfin, it's awesome

[–] Opisek@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Can you explain? I don't see Plex. Does it require you to create an account outside of your self-hosted service? Does your instance delegate its login to some third party then?

[–] SmoothLiquidation@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is true. You create a plex account, which allows you to log in from anywhere and will give you access to your media. The real problem is that if your outside internet goes down, you can't log into your own server.

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

But you can. The Admin Account is available locally.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago (2 children)

You don't (hopefully) run admin account on your and family's phones or TV

[–] Norgur@fedia.io 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

let's be honest: Even if this account was logged into some device that gets lost or something... what could happen? None of the apps can actually do any admin stuff. Even if it could: What harm could anyone do really from within the Plex container?

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 11 months ago

It implies bad hygiene in general

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

But you can, if your net goes down